Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Richmond (Va.) Examiner . . .

. . . in a long editorial bewailing the condition of the rebel cause says, “We have a thousand proofs that the southern people are not sufficiently alive to the necessity of exertion in the struggle they are involved in. The most recent proof is that given by the people along the Tennessee river, where the gun boats ascended from Fort Henry to Florence. [That proof was decidedly] convincing that the hearts of the Southern people are not in the struggle!

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862, p. 2

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